Human Rights Quotes

Human Rights for everyone is the necessary foundation upon which all of us may build a world where everybody may live in peace and serenity and plenty.

In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.

To tackle the underlying roots of violence and conflict, we need a massive international effort to reduce poverty and injustice, and to promote development, democracy and human rights.

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.

No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.

A century that began with children having virtually no rights is ending with children having the most powerful legal instrument that not only recognizes but protects their human rights.

Without peace, there is little hope for human rights

Women's empowerment is intertwined with respect for human rights.

There can be no peace without justice and respect for human rights.

Peace, non-violence, human rights and the environment - if only everybody saw these as the seamless whole that they are

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

I chose to defend human rights because I cannot maintain my silence in the face of injustice.

The idea of human rights as a fundamental principle can be seen to underlie throughout Islamic teachings.

Today's human rights violations are the causes of tomorrow's conflicts.

It is individuals who have human rights, not religions or beliefs

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.

Freedom of expression is the foundation of human rights, the source of humanity, and the mother of truth.

Psychiatry does not commit human rights abuse. It is a human rights abuse.

The Muslim world suffers from internal divisions, antidemocratic practices, and the violation of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

We need a broad commitment to human rights across the board. We cannot attain that simply by protecting one oppressed group or the other.

I recognize no rights but human rights.

Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century.

The only way to do the human rights thing is to do the right thing medically.

I don't want a moratorium on the death penalty. I want the abolition of it. I can't understand why a country [USA] that's so committed to human rights doesn't find the death penalty an obscenity.

Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities.

In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights.

Iran's continued, widespread persecution of ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and political prisoners is a disgrace and stands as a shameful indictment of Iran's leaders.

I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity.

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Tolerance and human rights require each other.

There are some issues that are not in control of the government. Two of those issues are human rights and personal freedoms are in the domain of Iran's conservative judicial system.

Human rights for everybody, there is no difference. Live on! And be yourself!

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

Human rights means that each individual should be treated with respect, dignity and equality.

Human rights are for those who can behave like humans. If you can't act responsibly you relinquish that right.

Clever people are never credited with their follies: what a deprivation of human rights!

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

No state or society can claim to have established human rights once and for all.

I was against impunity when it comes to human rights violations. But many of us African leaders now want to leave the Rome Statute as soon as possible because of this Western arrogance.

We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all.

The common people don't believe this kind of religion [of islamic fundamentalists] because first and foremost they want to solve their basic problems, including human rights and economic.

The whole human rights structure is based on the accountability of governments.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights.

The basic human rights documents-the American Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man-were written by political, not by religious, leaders.

In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.

There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

Human rights, human freedoms... and human dignity have their deepest roots somewhere outside the perceptible world... while the state is a human creation, human beings are the creation of God.